Episode 356: Politics or Gender or Iron Man
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🗓️ 29 December 2017
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
The boys wrap up a big year—a huge year—with an unintentionally thematic episode about feelings, expectations, nostalgia, and the black boxes of life, technological and otherwise.
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| 0:00.0 | hello hello marlin hey happy new year buddy happy new year you know there's |
| 0:07.8 | not that many happy new year songs well there's the old |
| 0:11.4 | the old and yeah that's that was the only one I was gonna say I know of and you |
| 0:15.4 | got the sequel another old Langzahn by Dan Fogelberg mm-hmm mm-hmm I got a |
| 0:20.4 | six pack and drank it in his car hmm hmm I didn't really thought this thing |
| 0:25.5 | through no and is that a new year's song or is it simply a song people sing |
| 0:31.8 | at New Year's time old Langzahn yeah like what is that when you translate that |
| 0:37.2 | is it about a New Year's or is it just this is like a festive song we happen |
| 0:41.2 | all sing that's a good question I believe it's based on a poem by the great |
| 0:44.9 | Scott Robert Burns and boy it's fun to hear his poems read out loud |
| 0:54.3 | Langzahn look at it up Scott's poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and |
| 1:01.9 | such the tune of a traditional folk song it's played in G major G major well |
| 1:08.1 | especially the little bit farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight |
| 1:11.4 | by extension it's also sung at funerals hmm interesting yeah I don't know hmm |
| 1:18.6 | what a fissile Dan Dan big year huge year mm-hmm yes it has been 356 can you believe that |
| 1:28.1 | three all of these yeah that's right all they said I wouldn't do three they said you |
| 1:32.7 | wouldn't do three mm-hmm and you did them all in 2017 all three and 56 of them almost all of them |
| 1:39.6 | typically you know almost none of them were released we ended up having one usable |
| 1:46.0 | podcast episode that turned out to be turns out about once a week yeah I mean out of the what |
| 1:51.4 | are we doing 10 or 15 a week now 10 to 15 a week was them are just me crying only one of them is |
| 1:56.6 | is usable and that's not so I heard hobbles together for the other ones so tired all the time okay |
| 2:04.3 | rolling she started again okay I'll be better this time oh no I feel great I feel great |
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